Teenage cake baker from Kiveton releases cookbook in aid of Sheffield Hospitals Charity

A teenage superhero who bakes for people facing challenges in life has released a cookbook to raise money for Sheffield Hospitals Charity.
Alana Habergham-Rice with her cookbook which will help raise money for Sheffield Hospitals Charity.Alana Habergham-Rice with her cookbook which will help raise money for Sheffield Hospitals Charity.
Alana Habergham-Rice with her cookbook which will help raise money for Sheffield Hospitals Charity.

Alana Habergham-Rice, 13, who has autism, has been creating her caring cakes to cheer people up for seven years.

Her new cookbook – Cakes to make you smile, from the heart of Sheffield – continues her fundraising for a good cause.

She chose the hospitals charity, which she has supported for several years, in gratitude for the medical care shown to her close friend, Nick Challenger, in his recent battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Nick was treated at the Royal Hallamashire Hospital and eventually given the all-clear. But that is not where the story ends….he and his family and friends decided that they wanted to pay back the treatment and Alana wanted to do her bit.

Alana, who lives in Kiveton, is dedicating the proceeds of her book to Sheffield Hospitals Charity, who will receive £4.50 from each sale.

She said: “I am so proud that every copy that I sell will make a difference to such an amazing cause like Sheffield Hospitals Charity.

“The hospitals showed Nick such amazing care in his battle with cancer and so I want to do this for him. He always believes in me and let me have my first baking stall outside his shop.

Copies of the book can be purchased through https://www.sheffieldhospitalscharity.org.uk/Shop or the Facebook page, Alana’s Caring Cakes.

Alana said: “The most important thing to me is always kindness. The world is a much better place when people are kind and that is what my baking and all of the other things I try to do are all about.”

For Alana and her mum, Rachel, everything is about kindness. ‘The Friendly Bench’ is another example of Alana’s incredible initiatives.

Last year, Kiveton Park had the first Friendly Bench installed in Yorkshire as part of a national scheme. The Friendly Bench is an innovative community garden to help tackle loneliness and social isolation. Working with local councillor, Dominic Beck Alana was proud to see the installation of the bench outside Kiveton library in Kiveton Park.

The bench gives people a communal space to meet, to talk and to help one another.

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